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Author Topic: Apartmentizing a Brenkert BX-80 Projector Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 04-30-2003 10:06 PM                     Don, I ran my BX-80 which was made to look like a BX-100 on aircraft hydraulic fluid. No problems whatsoever. However, that machine only ran about 3 hours a day 4 days a week. That was before I got a bucket of ISO 10. I gave that machine to Josh, and he is running ISO 10 in it now, and it is still a beautiful running machine as far as I know. I have not heard Josh bitching about it.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 05-01-2003 08:34 AM                        I guess eventually SOMEONE has to ask if Filmguard would work. Sounds like just about anything else would! A drive-in owner friend of mine ran his old Wenzel heads on 30 weight from the local gas station for nearly 40 years... and the heads weren't new when they were installed. He still runs his Century heads on the stuff... two of them since 1942. I'm sure this will cause a few "clucks of distaste" from most who frequent these hallowed halls... but considering how long he's been doing it, you'd have a hard time convincing him that he'd have been better off with factory-approved oil. Oh... only one rebuild from the 5 heads involved. The others are all originals, though running fairly light duty.  |  IP: Logged Don Sneed Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Texas City, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 05-01-2003 10:21 AM                        I just notice something in the pictures that I got a chuckle out of...anyone notice the towels on the floor ??? This we all can relate to that has Brenkerts & Simplex....I have a question for Paul or anyone in fact...I have service Brenkert machines for the past 23 yrs. with little or no service to them...The Brenkert machines is almost a no die machine & was or let say still is a damn good machine...question is: Why did they go out of business ?? This is a question that I always wanted to know...  |  IP: Logged Jeff Taylor Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 601 From: Chatham, NJ/East Hampton, NY Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-01-2003 10:48 AM                     Don: Wasn't it a consequence of their parent company's (RCA's) decision to exit the commercial cinema business? Things were tough enough in the industry at that time that nobody else wanted to pick up a projector mgr.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-01-2003 12:30 PM                     Don, I have heard several stories about why Brenkert discontinued production. Jeff has a valid theory. They were running into some very stiff competition with Simplex and Century. My opinion...There were some very fine machines that never gained the popularity they rightfully deserved. Wensel and some models of Motiograph might have been in the same boat with Brenkert. Brenkert and Motiograph projectors could take one helluva beating by the old "black stick" arc lamps much better than many others. Drive-in theatres loved them. [ 05-01-2003, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: Paul G. Thompson ]  |  IP: Logged Adam Fraser Master Film Handler Posts: 499 From: Houghton Lake, MI, USA Registered: Dec 2001 posted 05-01-2003 01:48 PM                        Speaking of Golden Spectro I have ran the stuff in all the bikes I have owned (5 or so) and have never had an engine or transmission blow. Spectro is formulated as a non-foaming oil as the spectro rep told me when i was working at a motorcycle dealership b/c most bikes lubricate the transmission and lower end of the engine with the same oil. Auto oil is made to only lubricate the lower end of an engine. Not sure if harleys have separate engines and transmissions though as I have never worked on one.  |  IP: Logged Philippe Laude Film Handler Posts: 79 From: Longueville, Belgium Registered: Jul 99 posted 05-02-2003 08:31 AM                     I second Mark and would recommend synthetic oil rather than mineral one.  |  IP: Logged

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